Package: python-debian Version: 0.1.27 Severity: wishlist The debian.copyright module returns the content of the License field as a string, matching the literal value written down in the debian/copyright file.
It would be nice (and will avoid duplicate work) if the module would offer a way to traverse the content of the License field as an AST, conformant to the semantics of machine-readable debian/copyright files. The AST should include at the very minimum boolean and/or combination of licenses (implementing the semantics of "," properly). Additionally, the AST could distinguish between trailing "+" for "or later" license variants, and support "with" for license exceptions. FWIW, Debsources would use this feature for rendering machine-readable copyright fiels if it were available. Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages python-debian depends on: ii python-chardet 2.3.0-1 ii python-six 1.9.0-3 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages python-debian recommends: ii python-apt 1.0.0~beta3 Versions of packages python-debian suggests: ii gpgv 1.4.19-3 -- no debconf information